Caterpillers!!!

I have been infested by them, cabbage, broccolli and baby brussel plants all devastated. did I do something wrong? I can't kill them, they are baby butterflys, is there anything humane you can do about it? there are millions of them.

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i thought the same and let them eat every single leaf of my gooseberries. no butterflies. found out they grow into gooseberrie flies? next time might shake them off for the birds! maybe you could grow something you dont mind getting eaten and put them on that like nasturtians. i heard catterpillars like nasturtians so i grew loads this year but still no butterflies. im very envious of people who have butterflies in their garden. apparently butterflies are very fussy about where they set up a colony the conditions have to be just right. good luck with yours.

If you want to eat your cabbage you need to take them off the plants and look for them at a very early stage. The birds will eat them, or put them on other plants. We have lots of butterflies in our garden. The only thing I do is grow flowers and shrubs that they like.

I havent :-) I will read them, thank you :-) I think I have learned a big lesson this year and will have to be a lot more organised next year, I am still amazed how these little creatures find your stuff, I only have a little patch! but hey this year my patch has probably doubled the population it seems he he x